Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 64

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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ber of the Colonial Club, of Cambridge, and of the Union Club.

Mr. Endicott was first married May 4, 1847, to Miriam Jane Smith, who died in 1849, at the age of twenty years, leaving no children. He married for his second wife Abigail Has- tings Browning, of Petersham, daughter of Asaph and Lois (Hastings) Browning. Mrs. Endicott's paternal grandparents were John3 and Clara (Sherman) Browning, John3 being a son of James2 and Rebecca (Scott) Browning, and grandson of James' and Elizabeth (Davis) Browning. James," the emigrant ancestor of the family, was b. in Scotland in 1672. Mrs. Lois Hastings Browning, Mrs. Endicott's mother, was descended from Thomas' Hastings, weaver, b. in 1605, an early settler in Water- town, Mass., who m. in 1651, as his second wife, Margaret Cheney, the line being contin- ued through Samuel and Sarah (Coolidge) Hastings; Daniel3 and Sarah (Ball) Hastings; Daniel4 and Priscilla (Keyes) Hastings; to Henry5 and Abigail (Hawes) Hastings, parents of Lois6 Hastings, who m. Asaph Brown- ing.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Endicott have had four children, of whom Emma is the only one now living. She is the wife of Joseph M. Marean, of Cambridge, and the mother of five children - Edith Endicott, Henry Endicott, Parker Endicott, Browning Endicott, and Endicott. Edith Endicott Marean was married on October 2, 1901, to Rev. Roderick Stebbins, of Milton, Mass., son of Dr. Horatio Stebbins. Mrs. Marean is a woman of literary ability and repu- tation. She has contributed numerous articles to the periodical press, and is the author of a volume of verse. Mr. and Mrs. Endicott, since 1859, have resided in Cambridge. They attend the Unitarian church. He is a Republican in politics.

INTHROP PETER HAY, of Stone- ham, was born in this town April 22, 1858, a son of Peter Crooker and Dorothy Ann (Allen) Hay. He is of Scotch ancestry, being a lineal descendant in the sixth generation of an early Scotch settler of Middlesex County, one Patrick (or Peter)

Hay, the line of descent being : Patrick,' Cap- tain Peter, Sr.,2 Captain Peter, Jr., 3 Captain Jonathan, 4 Peter Crooker, 5 Winthrop Peter6.

Patrick' Hay was b. in Scotland in 1658. Emigrating to America when a young man, he was living in Reading, Mass., in 1688. He afterward lived for a while in that part of Lynn now called "Lynnfield," removing thence to Charlestown End in 1692. A man of enter- prise and foresight, he bought various tracts of land, which he improved by clearing. He located permanently in the northern part of the town of Stoneham, building first a log cabin, which, tradition says, stood near the bend of Tremont Street. He afterward erected a dwelling-house on or near the spot where Luther White now lives, which was owned and occupied by him and his descendants until about 1846. He was four times m. His first wife, to whom he was united January 26, 1683, was in maidenhood Mary Kibbling, who d. March 12, 1693-4. His second wife, Sarah, mother of Captain Peter, Sr., d. March 3, 1729. He m., third, Mrs. Susanna Roberts, a widow, who d. in 1734. His intention of marriage with Ruth Marrett, his fourth wife, was published October 29, 1742. She d. July 10, 1748, aged eighty-seven years. He reared seven children, namely : Mary, who m. Thomas Green; James, whose three successive wives were Mehitable Sprague, Anna Rand, and Anna Dench; Isabel, who m. Nathaniel Nichols, of Reading; John, who d. at the age of thirty-one years; Peter, next in the line of descent, under present consideration ; Margaret m. Ebenezer Hills; and Anna, of whom there is no special mention.

Captain Peter2 Hay, Sr., b. October 30, 1696, d. March 7, 1790. His will, executed in 1768, was probated in 1790. He was one of the leading citizens of .Stoneham during the middle of the eighteenth century, possess- ing considerable property, and serving in various public offices. His homestead was near the Farm Hill Station, afterward known as the "Hay Tavern." His first wife, Han- nah Huse, of Reading, d. in 1734. He m., second, January 15, 1735, Mary Brooks, of Stoneham. She bore him four children - John, Mary, Martha, and Peter, Jr. Mary m.

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Ebenezer Buckman. Martha became the wife of Timothy Wright.

Captain Peter3 Hay, Jr., b. September I, 1746, was a Revolutionary soldier, responding to the Lexington alarm in April, 1775. In 1780 he m. Rebecca Wright. Captain Jona- than4 Hay, only child of Captain Peter and Rebecca Hay, was b. May 8, 1783. He was prominent in military affairs, at the breaking out of the War of 1812 being made Captain of a company of riflemen known as the "Wash- ington Rifle Greens," which, in 1814, was called out, and stationed at Dorchester Heights. On June 20, 1812, he m. Betsey Crooker, by whom he had six children - Bet- sey, Francis, Jonathan, William, Sarah, and Peter. Francis m. Mary Melbourn. Jona- than m. Rebecca Hayden. Sarah became the wife of Joseph Barrett.

Peter Crookers Hay, b. February 5, 1819, d. September 26, 1883. On May 1, 1850, he m. Dorothy Ann Allen, a native of Freeport, Me., b. August 22, 1832; she d. August 14, 1874. Nine children were b. of their union, as fol- lows : Sarah Jane, b. January 21, 1851, is the wife of Levi W. Green, of Melrose Highlands, by whom she had one child - Chester Green, b. January 2, 1874, who d. December 5, 1884; Ann Elizabeth, b. February 22, 1852, is the wife of Peter Augustus Green, of Milford, and the mother of four children - George Augus- tus, Peter Appleton, Etta Elizabeth, and Lena May; Rosetta, b. October 30, 1854, is the wife of Samuel Flanders, of Stoneham; Win- throp P. is the direct subject of this sketch ; Betsey, b. December 30, 1860, d. in January, 1861; Sidney Ellsworth, b. March 6, 1862, d. in 1863; Mary Emma, b. June 1, 1864, is the wife of Charles H. Graham, and has one child - Ethel Hay Graham; Levi Appleton, b. March 18, 1868, d. September, 1869; Hattie Allen, b. August 22, 1872, is the wife of Frederick H. Berry, of Stoneham.

Winthrop Peter6 Hay was educated in his native town of Stoneham, and after leaving school found employment in the market of James O. Fisk, for whom he worked nine years. During the next five years he was engaged in the same business with A. S. Hovey, and since 1888 he has been associ-

ated with S. P. Finnegan. Fraternally Mr. Hay belongs to the Columbia Lodge, No. 29, I. O. O. F .; Columbian Encampment, No. 43; Canton Fells, No. 26; Evergreen Rebecca Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F. ; and to the High- land Council, No. 36, O. U. A. M., of Stone- ham. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and in politics is a Republican.

On April 18, 1883, he married Miss Lois Woodis, of Wakefield, Mass., a daughter of Hiram and Vesta (Grant) Woodis. Mr. and Mrs. Hay have three children : Ruby Maria, born April 11, 1885; Winthrop Peter, Jr., born December 3, 1886; and Corinne Isabell, born July 24, 1888. Ruby Maria is attending the high school, and Corinne, the grammar school. Winthrop Peter, Jr., attends the grammar school.

EORGE W. MORSE, of Newton, was born in Lodi, Athens County, Ohio, August 24, 1845, son of Peter and Mary E. (Randall) Morse. In early youth he attended for one year the preparatory de- partment of Oberlin College, and then, com- ing East, went to school in Haverhill and An- dover, Mass., and in Chester, N. H., succes- sively.

In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, when not quite sixteen years of age, his enthu- siasm impelled him to enter the army. He joined the old Second Massachusetts Regiment - the first three years' regiment from Massa- chusettts - which immediately went into camp at Brook Farm, and after a few weeks of drill went to the front, its subsequent history being a part of that of our country. Its original officers were largely West Point or Harvard men, a large proportion of whom were killed. (See Roster in Memorial Hall, Harvard Col- lege. Also the monument to the Second Massachusetts Infantry in the form of a colos- sal lion in the Public Library, Boston. ) This regiment served in the Army of the Potomac for the first two and one-half years of its career, and was then transferred to the south- west under General Hooker. Later it became part of the grand army of Sherman, and par- ticipated in all his campaigns. It lost upon

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the battlefield, in killed and wounded, nearly one thousand men; that is, nearly as many as it originally took into the field, besides those who died of disease. Mr. Morse participated in all its battles, save those which occurred while he was for four months a prisoner of war.

At the end of three years Mr. Morse re-en- listed upon the field; and at the end of the war, although only nineteen years of age, he was in command of one of the companies of that famous old regiment, - the youngest officer who ever served in it, having been promoted through all the intermediate grades.

Immediately upon his return home, he took special studies at Andover, then entered Dart- mouth College, and later studied law with Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, of Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1869, and has since practised law continuously in Boston, with the exception of a few years spent in Europe with his family, where he directed the educa- tion of his children, also attending lectures in Paris at the Ecole de Droit and at the Sor- bonne.

Mr. Morse has been associated with some of Boston's leading commercial causes, includ- ing the Boston, Hartford, & Erie litigation; N. C. Munson, the great railroad contractor, and in the organization of his railroads; the commercial disasters to the Shaws and other leather houses of Boston in 1883; and later, from 1889 to 1896, as special counsel for the Thomson-Houston and General Electric Com- panies. He has been also the organizer of many street railways, including those at New- ton, Waltham, Lexington, Concord, and other parts of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was also counsel in the legal steps of the reorganization of the railway systems in Macon, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee, and in several of the other southern cities. For sev- eral years he was also counsel for the Central Massachusetts Railroad Company, and had charge of the legal matters affecting its con- solidation with the Boston & Maine Railroad. He represented the city of Newton for two terms in the General Court, but declined all further public office, owing to the large de- mands of a numerous family. He has always been a Republican in national politics, though

acting as an independent in local issues. Mr. Morse has compiled a book of genealogy show- ing his maternal ancestry, with the various connected families, entitled "Lane and Page Memorial," and containing illustrations of the old family homesteads, including the one at Rickmansworth, England. There are but four copies of this book (type-written), which are deposited as follows: one copy with Mr. Morse, one with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of Boston, one with the State Library in Boston, and one with Mr. Lucius Page Lane, of Boston. Mr. Morse was for several years president of the Morse Society.

The connected families from which he has descended, of which particular mention will be made herein, are of sturdy, enterprising, and fighting stock, as is shown in the several his- tories and genealogies referred to. For a fur- ther account of his genealogy see the. "Me- morial of the Morse Family" by Asa Porter Morse, published in 1896.

(A new and complete genealogy of the Morse family is being prepared, and is in charge of John Howard Morse, of Hartford, Conn., a grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt.)

GENEALOGY OF GEORGE W. MORSE. THE MORSE LINE.

Anthony Morse, of Marlborough, England, b. about 1575. The records of Marlborough show that he was a freeman, and "with a right to bear arms." His son, Anthony,' Jr., b. about 1606, came over with the Thomas Parker colony, and settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635. Many of his descendants. have been noted men, among others Jedediah Morse, the father of American geography, and his son, Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the elec- tric telegraph.

(See Coffin's History of Newbury; life of Professor S. F. B. Morse, by S. I. Prime; Abner Morse's memorial; Asa P. Morse's me- morial of Anthony Morse's line; also a pam- phlet called "The Morse Record," which is a history of the proceedings of the Morse Soci- ety in annual meeting, December 4, 1895, and a souvenir of the dinner at the Windsor Hotel. )

(All the above may be found with the New England Historic Genealogical Society. )

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Benjamin2 Morse, b. in 1640, m. Ruth Saw- yer. His son, Benjamin3 Morse, Jr., b. in Newbury, Mass., 1668, d. 1743; m. Susanna Merrill. His son, Captain Abel+ Morse, b. in Newbury, Mass., 1692, m. Grace Parker, 1714. He moved to Chester, N. H., about 1745, and was Captain of the Colonial Com- pany there, and the first Representative to the General Court for New Hampshire from the county of Rockingham. He was the founder of the Chester branch of the family. His sons served in the Colonial War with Wolf at Quebec, and with William Pep- perell at the siege of Louisburg, and others served in the American army during the Revo- lution.

Stephen5 Morse, son of Abel,4 b. in New- bury, Mass., in 1723, m. Abigail Ingalls, daughter of Captain Samuel Ingalls, one of the first proprietors of Chester, N. H., d. in 1807. Peter6 Morse, b. 1774 at Chester, N. H., d. in 1862, m. Sarah Brown (a direct descendant of one of the first Browns who settled in Salem, Mass.). Peter7 Morse, Jr., b. in 1801, d. in 1879. He m. in 1838 Mary E. Randall, who was b. in 1815, a descendant both of the Lanes and Pages, of Bedford, Mass. (See Lane and Page lines in "Lane and Page Memorial " above mentioned.) This second Peter Morse went to sea at the age of fifteen, and spent more than a quarter of a century in the East India and Mediterranean service. At one time he commanded one of the vessels of Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. His son, George W.8 Morse, a sketch of whose personal career has already been given in part, born, as above men- tioned, in Lodi, Athens County, Ohio, August 24, 1845, married in 1870 Miss Clara R. Boit, of Newton, Mass. (See Boit genealogy to be published elsewhere in this volume.) Their children are: Harriet C. Morse, born August 24, 1871; entered Radcliffe College in 1898 *; Gertrude E. Morse, born September 28, 1872, entered Radcliffe College in 1900 *; Mary Ethel Morse, born December 4, 1876, died November 7, 1879; Rosalind Morse, born October 10, 1879, entered Wellesley College in 1899; Henry Boit Morse, born August 9, 1881, entered Dartmouth College in 1900 *; Richard Page Morse, born December 10, 1883,

died January 27, 1884; Samuel F. B. Morse, born July 18, 1885, entered Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, Mass., 1900 *; Genevieve Morse, born May 19, 1893.

(For Morse arms see Morse Genealogy and College of Heraldry. )

LANE AND PAGE LINES.

[See " Lane and Page Memorial " above mentioned.]

Job1 Lane came from Rickmansworth, Eng- land, and settled in 1635 in that part of Bil- lerica, Mass., now known as Bedford. He was a man of great enterprise for his time. He purchased a part of the old Governor Win- throp estate on the Concord River. His son, Colonel John2 Lane, was the first Colonel com- missioned by the Crown in the colonies, and commanded the militia of Middlesex County for many years in engagements with the In- dians. One of his daughters became famous in Indian warfare. A full account of Job and John Lane will be found in Brown's History of Bedford, Mass. Susanna3 Lane, Colonel John. Lane's daughter, m. Nathaniel2 Page, of Bedford, Mass., and the line of descent is thereafter found in the Page genealogy. Many of the Lane lands are still in the family, and have so continued since the early generations in this country. The Lanes not only served in the Colonial armies under the Crown, but also as patriots in the Revolution. (See Brown's History of Bedford. ) One Job Lane was wounded at the Concord fight. Of the Colo- nial and Revolutionary soldiers buried in the old cemetery in Bedford, Mass., many are Lanes and Pages, and were largely commis- sioned officers.

Nathaniel' Page settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1686. He was first Sheriff of Suffolk County, and moved to Bedford, Mass., in 1688, and bought a large tract of land, a con- siderable part of which still remains in the family. Nathaniel2 Page m. Susanna Lane, daughter of Colonel John Lane (see Lane genealogy), November 6, 1701. John3 Page, b. October 1I, 1704, d. February 18, 1789. He was a man of great stature. He was at the battle of Lexington (where he aided in captur-

* NOTE. At the time of this publication pursuing stud- ies, intending to graduate.

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ing six British regulars), and at Bunker Hill. He m., first, Rebecca Wheeler, of Concord. Nathaniel+ Page, b. June 20, 1742, m. Decem- ber 15, 1774, Sarah Brown, daughter of James Brown, of Lexington. He d. July 31, 1819. His wife, Sarah, was one of the Lexington Browns of Revolutionary fame, and was also a direct descendant of Thomas Makepeace, one of the early settlers of Boston, through his daughter, Hester Makepeace, who m. John Brown. (See Brown and Makepeace lines hereinafter given. )

Nathaniel4 Page was one of Bedford's enter- prising men. The Ensign of his company, he carried the colors of the Bedford and Billerica company at the Concord fight. This was a banner that had been brought over from Eng- lan by the family, and was supposed to have belonged to some body of the county troops of England. (See Brown's History of Bedford, where a full description of this banner is given.) Quite a contest took place at one time as to whether, under a gift of a successor of Nathaniel, it should be kept in the archives of Bedford or transferred to the State House, which was decided in favor of its remaining in the archives of Bedford, where it now is. A daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Brown) Page, Sarah5. Page, was b. in Bedford, May 22, 1777. She m. Samuel Randall, formerly of Stow, Mass. Their daughter, Mary E. Ran- dall (sixth generation), was b. in Bedford in 1815, and d. in 1886. She m. Captain Peter Morse, who was b. in Chester, N. H., and emigrated to the Ohio Valley shortly after mar- riage, where their son, George W. Morse (seventh generation), the subject of this sketch, as already stated, was born.

THE BROWNS, OF LEXINGTON, MASS.

[See paper by Abram English Brown in "Lane and Page Memorial."]

John Brown was baptized at Hawkedon, England, October 11, 1601. His father's name also was John. He arrived in New England in the ship "Lion," 1632, and settled at Wat Farms, now Weston. John2 . Brown, b. in 1631, m. Esther (sometimes written "Hester ") Makepeace, daughter of Thomas Makepeace, of Boston, April 24,

1655. (See various histories of Boston for account of Thomas Makepeace, and Makepeace genealogy given in this sketch.) John2 lived at Wat Farms, and subsequently at Cambridge, but apparently kept the Wat Farms. He had eleven children. Joseph3 Brown, b. 1677, m. Ruhama Wellington November 15, 1699. (See Wellington genealogy in History of Lex- ington by Hudson.) Benjamin4 Brown was baptized July 3, 1720. Sarah Brown was b. March 24, 1747, and m. Nathaniel Page4 of Bedford. (See Page genealogy hereinbefore given.)

It was Sarah Brown's uncle John who was killed at the first fire of the British at Lexing- ton Green, and whose name appears upon the monument there; and her own brother Solo- mon was not only one of the heroes who fought on that day, but he commenced his patriotic labors the day preceding by bringing the first intelligence into Lexington that the British intended to march, and he was one who volun- teered to follow and watch them on their way from Lexington to Concord, in which service he was taken prisoner, but escaped. He is mentioned by Charles Carleton Coffin and other writers upon these events. Without detract- ing from the credit due to Paul Revere, a share should be accorded to Solomon Brown.

Francis Brown was son of James and cousin of Sarah Brown, who m. Nathaniel+ Page. Quoting from the history of Lexington : "He was one of that gallant band which boldly stood before the British troops on the memo- rable 19th of April, 1775. He met the enemy in the morning, and, on their flight from Con- cord, Brown received a very severe wound, the ball entering his cheek and passing under his ear, lodged in the back of his neck. Notwith- standing this, he commanded the Lexington Company in 1776, and lived for twenty-five years.'

THE MAKEPEACE LINE.

[See paper by Abram English Brown in " Lane and Page Memorial."]

Mr. Thomas Makepeace appears among the first in the "Boston possessions," 1637, he being early allotted a house plot and garden place. This house and garden were in Han-

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over Street, near Court Street. He was one of the oldest members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and, as the record says, was a person of consequence and wealth. He appears in the various histories of Suffolk County and Boston. About 1641 he moved to Dorchester, where he owned an estate. He was one of the first advocates of free schools. The records show that he dealt considerably in lands in the first half of the seventeenth century, and introduced numerous petitions in the interest of reform. He also served in the Narragansett expedition against the Indians. There has always been a tradi- tion in the Morse and related families of noble blood through this branch. According to the "Genealogy of the Makepeace Family in the United States from 1637 to 1657," by William Makepeace, published in 1859, it would seem that the Makepeaces are connected with the Washingtons of Sulgrave Manor, England, of whom George Washington was a descendant. The arms of the Makepeace family, as found in that genealogy, are very attractive for any of the family feeling an interest in heraldry. It was Thomas Make- peace's daughter Hester who m. John2 Brown, the ancestor through several removes of Sarah Brown who m. Nathaniel4 Page. (See Page and Brown genealogies heretofore given. )

THE WILDE AND RANDALL LINES.

John' Wilde came from England in the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635. He settled in Ipswich, and later in Topsfield. Two or three generations are not distinctly traced. Elijah Wilde, a descendant of John,' was the ancestor of the families of that name in Groton and Shirley. He was b. January 4, 1718, m. Anna Hovey, and came to Shirley, then a part of Groton, about 1744. He had a large estate. He espoused the cause of Mother Ann Lee, and protected her from the mob in the old "Mother Ann Lee house" now stand- ing at Shirley, which was Elijah Wilde's homestead. He gave all his lands, some thousands of acres, to the Shakers' society, and was the founder of the Shirley branch of that order. He d. in 1791. He and his wife had eight children. His daughter, Molly

Wilde, daughter of Elijah, was b. December 25, 1754, probably in Groton. She m. Sam- uel Randall, of Stow, Mass., 1774, and they had three children. Their son, Samuel Ran- dall, m. Sarah5 Page, b. May 22, 1777, the daughter of Nathaniel+ Page, either very late in the seventeenth century or early in the eighteenth. The exact date can probably be ascertained. They had seven children. Their daughter, Mary E. Randall, m. Captain Peter7 Morse, and was mother of George W. Morse, the subject of this sketch. He and his sister, Miss C. Augusta Morse, of Athens, Ohio, are the only surviving children of Mary and Peter Morse. The only grandchildren of the latter are the sons and daughters, above-mentioned, of said Geo. W. Morse.

ILLIAM PALMER BARKER, late resident of Malden, Mass., widely known as a veteran in the sewing- machine business, was born at Hardwick, Vt., December 26, 1833, son of Edmund and Betsy (Sabin) Barker. He was the sixth of a family of ten children, of whom three are now living, namely: Edmund, Betsy, and Sarah.

His father was a native of Goshen Gore, Vt., his mother of Hardwick, Vt. His pa- ternal grandfather, Edmund Barker, Sr., is said to have come from England. Mrs. Betsy Sabin Barker was probably a daughter of Elisha (or Gideon) Sabin, who settled at Hard- wick, Vt., in 1794. The immigrant progeni- tor of the Sabin family of New England was William Sabin, said to have been a Huguenot refugee, who came over from England or Wales, and appeared at Rehoboth, Mass., in 1643. He was twice m., and was the father of twenty children, all but the first two b. at Rehoboth.

When William P. Barker was three years old his parents removed to Potsdam, N. Y. After a few years of schooling at Potsdam, he came to Eastern Massachusetts and worked on a farm in Billerica. £ Returning to Potsdam at the age of fourteen, he served an apprentice- ship to a Mr. Knight to learn the trade of carpenter. This trade, apparently, he did not

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follow for any length of time, as he is next heard of - a youth of about eighteen years --- working in a livery stable and shortly becom- ing a partner of his employer. The business, however, was not to his taste. He soon sold out, and went into the Quincy House, Boston, as assistant to the stewardess. Leaving the Quincy House after a brief experience in its affairs, he secured employment in a chair fac- tory at Templeton, Worcester County, Mass., and it was while there that he first became interested in the manufacture of sewing-ma- chines. He became one of the firm known as the Barker & White Sewing Machine Com- pany, that manufactured at Templeton the New England Single Thread Machine. Mr White at length decided to move the plant to Cleveland, Ohio, but Mr. Barker, having a fine residence and pleasant home at Templeton, chose to remain there, and accordingly with- drew from the firm. In 1859, at the time of the excitement over the discovery of gold in the Pike's Peak region of Colorado, he went there to try his luck at mining or speculating, being away about a year and a half. On his return to Massachusetts he settled at Orange, and again engaged in the sewing-machine busi- ness, being the pioneer manufacturer of the New Home sewing-machine. He remained at Orange twenty-one years. Disagreeing with his partner, Mr. A. J. Clark, who wished to employ foreign labor, to which he was opposed, Mr. Barker withdrew from the firm, and be- came general agent, for the New Home Sewing Machine Company, which was formed to con- tinue the business. He established offices for the company in the large cities of the United States, as New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and others, and sub-agencies all over the country. During the period of some years' duration in which he was general agent, he perfected and patented a new sewing-machine. This he sold out. He then established himself in Boston, turning his attention to real estate, engaging also in the sale of sewing-machines and pianos, his accumulated experience as agent and manu- facturer of sewing-machines being of great value to him. His death, which occurred on August 13, 1896, was occasioned by an acci- dent while he was crossing the railroad track

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 64

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850